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More fun with weather

Tonight’s light show, as our map courtesy of the Diavata Thessaloniki storm-tracking website explains, started west-south-west of Skopelos, over the central part of Evvia, but is heading north and is now overhead; the old count-to-nine reckoning suggests that some lightning events are less than a mile from Skopelos Town. Winds that were at zero this morning have been gusting at up to 40kph, and according to Yiannis Chatzitrakosas’s Skopelos weather station are south-westerlies. Rainfall soared from zero to 25mm/ph earlier and in some parts of town the lights are going on and off. The only good news is that Yiannis’s barometer is rising rapidly, usually a sign of better weather arriving. We might at least wake to cleaner streets tomorrow.